Chapter 14 Brother Bai is actually engaged to her

Bai Zilin looked at his injured legs. Ever since the silly girl cleaned them for him last night, his legs no longer hurt, and he felt as energetic as if he had never been injured. He had lost a lot of blood yesterday, and his head was dizzy, making it difficult for him to even open his eyes. Now he was completely healed. The silly girl was truly his lucky star.

Bai Zilin climbed to the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), scooped up another ladle of water, and drank it. It tasted so good. He found that after drinking the water, he wasn't so hungry anymore. But it was just water after all, and there was no food. He didn't know how long he could last. He couldn't rely on the silly girl to bring him food either. The silly girl herself was struggling to make ends meet. Alas, he and the silly girl were truly brothers in misfortune.

Liu Ye, who was starving, was grilling fish by the river. She had just caught them in the river, where the water had dried up and many fish were lying on the verge of death. She put 18 large fish, weighing two or three pounds each, into her spatial storage. She grilled all 50 or 60 smaller fish. It was actually quite delicious, although it was still without salt, so the taste was a little lacking.

She ate half of the grilled fish with willow leaves, put the other half into a bowl, and stored it in her spatial storage. She would save it for Brother Bai to eat that night. With his family, it was uncertain whether anyone would bring him food. They would still have to rely on her.

Liu Ye extinguished the fire and continued up the mountain along the stream. She didn't know when the drought would end, so she had to store up more food to eat on the way to escape the famine. She had a spatial dimension, so she didn't actually need to escape the famine. She could just hide in her spatial dimension and come out when the disaster outside was over, or she could simply stay in her spatial dimension and live there.

However, that seemed too lonely. She couldn't stand being alone, and more importantly, she really wanted to go to the south to see the world.

"Puff puff." Willow Leaf waved her hand at the rustling bushes, not caring what it was, as she'd already put it into her spatial storage. Then she continued walking forward. A rabbit darted out of the bushes. "Put it away."

From a great distance, she spotted a pheasant under a tree. Could she really store it in her spatial storage? She tried waving her hand, and the pheasant disappeared. "Holy crap, it actually works! Her spatial storage is amazing!"

Liu Ye walked in the woods for another hour, and apart from picking half a basket of wild vegetables, she didn't encounter any more pheasants or rabbits. So she decided to go down the mountain and turn back. On her way down, she luckily caught another rabbit, and this unexpected gain made her very happy.

When Liu Ye came down from the mountain, it was around two or three o'clock in the afternoon. The hillside was still full of people digging for vegetables. From a distance, she saw Liu Ya and Liu Qing among a group of girls.

The two sisters, Liu Ya and Liu Ye, also saw the willow leaves coming down from the mountain. The two sisters tacitly pursed their lips, lowered their heads and continued digging for vegetables, pretending not to see them.

The two sisters pretended not to see, but the village chief's daughter, Zhao Shuangshuang, couldn't pretend not to see. She ran over and blocked Liu Ye's path, shouting, "You big idiot, where are my vegetable basket and machete? I asked you to dig wild vegetables for me, but you took my basket and machete! Give them back!"

Liu Ye shook her head, feigning ignorance, and retreated step by step in fear. Suddenly, she realized that she had forgotten to put away the storage space in the basket on her back.

Zhao Shuangshuang also noticed that the simpleton was carrying a basket on his back today. She went up and grabbed Liu Ye's basket, saying, "Is my woodcutter's knife in there? Give it back to me!"

Liu Ye took off the basket from her back and tossed it to Zhao Shuangshuang. There was no wood-chopping knife in the basket; she had already put it away in her spatial storage. The basket only contained half a bunch of wild vegetables.

Zhao Shuangshuang glanced at the half-filled basket of wild vegetables on his back. They were tender and large, much better than what she had dug herself. She reached into the basket and rummaged through the vegetables, but couldn't find the wood-chopping knife. She didn't intend to return the basket to the idiot either: "Hmph, you stupid idiot, you lost my basket and wood-chopping knife, so this half-basket of wild vegetables is mine. Consider it compensation. Now get lost!"

Liu Ye covered her head with both hands and ran towards the village. She returned home in no time and saw Bai Wangshi and a woman sitting at the gate. The woman looked a bit like Zhao Shuangshuang.

Bai Wangshi waved her hand at Liu Ye with a stern face: "Go away, what are you looking at? Go back to your courtyard, you unlucky thing!"

Liu Ye pouted and went into her own dilapidated courtyard. She turned around and hid under the wall, wanting to hear what they were saying.

Bai Wangshi patted Zhao Village Chief's wife's hand with a look of shame: "Sigh, I don't blame anyone, I just blame my son for not being lucky enough to be good enough for your Shuangshuang. Sister Zhao, don't take it to heart. If it were me, I would also break off the engagement. Who would want to marry their daughter to a useless person...?"

Village Chief Zhao's wife, Zhao Liu, whom the younger generation calls Aunt Zhao, nodded awkwardly, "Thank you for your understanding, Sister-in-law Bai. If Zilin hadn't had that accident, I would have really wanted him to be my son-in-law. Alas! Heaven is truly blind; how could it have been Zilin who…."

Bai Wangshi quickly seized the opportunity to say, "Sister Zhao, Zilin's medicine is gone, and we don't have enough money at home. Could you...?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Liu immediately stood up from the stool as if a nail had pierced her buttocks: "Well, it's getting late, so I'll head back now. Sister-in-law Bai, you can stay here, no need to see me off..."

"Ah, no, look at the silver..."

Zhao Liushi had already walked far away. Bai Wangshi spat at the door: "Pah! You hypocrite! My son was just injured, and you come to break off the engagement. You should at least have someone with you! Pah! You slut!"

Bai Wangshi, having thoroughly enjoyed her banter, picked up two stools from the ground, turned around, and went back to her courtyard. A short while later, the sound of cursing came from the Bai family home.

Liu Ye stood up from the wall. So, Brother Bai and Zhao Shuangshuang were engaged. She never expected that. When did this happen? How come she had never heard of it?

Right, she had to check her space. She squatted down by the wall again, slipped into her space, and saw something lying on the ground. What was this thing? It looked like a deer, but it didn't have antlers, and its fur was gray and not very long. She didn't recognize this animal either.

"Never mind, we can eat it even if we don't recognize it." She grabbed the animal's leg and pulled it to the wild boar. Then she went to check on the crops in the field. Sure enough, the soybeans and corn were ripe. The stalks had turned yellowish-gray, the corn cobs were big and long, and the soybean pods were bulging.

But how is she going to harvest it? Does she have to cut it down with a machete? She's never harvested crops before, so she really doesn't know, but she'll definitely cut it down.

Liu Ye went to get a machete and started by cutting soybeans. The soybeans didn't grow much, and after cutting them all, there was only a small pile. Then she chopped corn stalks and picked corn cobs. She counted the corn cobs, and there were a total of 65 corn cobs.

Suddenly, a golden light flashed on the black earth, and it instantly doubled in size. Liu Ye swallowed hard, startled. It was so fantastical and frightening that it gave her a fright out of the blue...